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20080259830 | Wireless communication system, information and communication terminal, portable telephone, reader/writer, communication method and computer program - There is provided a wireless communication system that includes two information communication terminals with built-in IC chips engaged in alternating wireless communication with each other through noncontact communication, wherein one of the information communication terminals includes a reception unit that receives a packet originating from the other information communication terminal, a transmission unit that wirelessly transmits a single packet or a plurality of packets to the other information communication terminal by transmitting all packets that can be transmitted to the other information communication terminal instead of engaging in alternating wireless communication if a specific condition is satisfied and an identifier appending unit that appends a last packet identifier to a packet to be transmitted last from the transmission unit among all the packets that can be transmitted to the other information communication terminal. | 10-23-2008 |
20100155466 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION OUTPUTTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information providing system includes a portable terminal including an IC chip, and an information providing apparatus that carries out wireless communications with the IC chip. The information providing apparatus includes a browser that reads content and that outputs the content on a screen based on screen-output control information embedded in the content data and defining an output format or a data structure of the content, and a wireless communication unit that carries out wireless communications with the IC chip. In the content data, transmission target information to be transmitted to the portable terminal, and transmission control information instructing transmission of the transmission target information, are also embedded. The browser instructs the wireless communication unit to transmit the transmission target information to the portable terminal based on the transmission control information. The wireless communication unit transmits the transmission target information to the IC chip based on the instruction. | 06-24-2010 |
20110111777 | APPLICATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, APPLICATION PROVIDING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An application providing system is provided. The application providing system includes a portable terminal device having an IC chip configured to perform radio communications; and a server device; the application providing system connecting the portable terminal device and the server device through a communication network, wherein the portable terminal device includes a transmitted message receiver section, an application determination section, an application transmission request generation section, and an application storage section, wherein the server device includes a transmitted message generation section, a transmitted message sender section, an application transmission request receiver section, an application storage section, and an application sender section. | 05-12-2011 |
20130346489 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CLIENTS, SERVER, PROGRAMS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system including an IC chip, a client driving the IC chip to carry out predetermined processing, a server connected to the client by a communication network, wherein the client has a processing-command requesting section configured to request for transmission of a processing command to the server; an ID-acquisition-command sender section configured to transmit an ID acquisition command; a chip-ID extraction section configured to extract the chip ID; and a processing-command sender section configured to embed the extracted chip ID into the processing command and transmit the command. The server has a command-group sender section configured to send the command. The IC chip has a chip-ID sender section configured to transmit data; a chip-ID determination section configured to determine whether the chip ID in the command is identical with the chip ID of the IC chip; and a processing execution section configured to carry out the predetermined processing. | 12-26-2013 |
20150024730 | APPLICATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICES, SERVER DEVICE, APPLICATION PROVIDING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An application providing system is provided. The application providing system includes a portable terminal device having an IC chip configured to perform radio communications; and a server device; the application providing system connecting the portable terminal device and the server device through a communication network, wherein the portable terminal device includes a transmitted message receiver section, an application determination section, an application transmission request generation section, and an application storage section, wherein the server device includes a transmitted message generation section, a transmitted message sender section, an application transmission request receiver section, an application storage section, and an application sender section. | 01-22-2015 |
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20120082369 | IMAGE COMPOSITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided an image composition apparatus including a parallax deriving unit configured to derive a parallax of one area in a background image, the one area corresponding to one object in the background image, an image selection unit configured to select an image which has a parallax different from the parallax of the one area in the background image, as a material image, from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which is viewed as a specific object in a three-dimensional manner, and an image composition unit configured to superpose the material image selected by the image selection unit on the background image. | 04-05-2012 |
20120092338 | IMAGE COMPOSITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided an image retrieval method including obtaining a parallax that exists in a material image which is viewed as an object in a three-dimensional manner, retrieving a three-dimensional image that satisfies a predetermined condition as a selectable candidate image from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which viewed in a three-dimensional manner, and executing image composition by superposing the material image on the three-dimensional image that is retrieved as the selectable candidate image in the retrieving of the three-dimensional image. | 04-19-2012 |
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20120104227 | COORDINATE RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to one embodiment, a coordinate recognizing apparatus includes plural light emitting elements, plural light receiving elements, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores, concerning plural pairs of the light emitting elements and the light receiving elements set in advance, reference values used for determination of blocking of a light path. The controller performs, concerning the respective pairs, actions for collecting, plural times, a difference between first intensity indicated by a detection signal output from the light receiving element, which is a pair of the light emitting element, in a state in which the light emitting element is caused to emit light and second intensity indicated by a detection signal output from the light receiving element during non-light emission of the light emitting element and updating the reference value of the pair stored in the memory using a minimum of differences collected plural times. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105377 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING COORDINATES - According to one embodiment, a coordinate recognition apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting devices, a plurality of light-receiving devices, and a controller. The light-emitting devices and the light-receiving devices are arranged in an array along X direction. The controller forms a plurality of groups of light paths each formed by a plurality of light paths parallel to one another in a plane including the light-emitting devices and the light-receiving devices such that an angle of the light paths varies from group to group, identifies positions p and l of each of the groups in the X direction of the light-emitting device and the light-receiving device corresponding to the light path that passes through the center of a light shield region, and calculates coordinates of the center of the light shield region in the plane based on the identified positions p and l of each of the groups. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105378 | INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an input apparatus comprises an input detector, a vibration detector, a controller, and a sensitivity adjustment unit. The input detector detects an input by the blockage of a light beam to scan a scan region. The vibration detector detects a vibration equal to or more than a set sensitivity applied to the input detector. The controller stops the light beam scanning when the input detector detects no inputs for a given length of time. The controller restores the light beam scanning when the vibration detector detects a vibration. The sensitivity adjustment unit changes the sensitivity of the vibration detector to be weaker than the set sensitivity when the input detector detects no inputs and the vibration detector continuously detects vibrations after the controller has restored the light beam scanning. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105379 | COORDINATE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COORDINATE RECOGNITION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a coordinate recognition apparatus includes a coordinate input unit, an adjustment unit, a judgment unit, a scan control unit, and a recognition unit. The adjustment unit adjusts an offset voltage of a sensor amplifier that amplifies a sensor signal output from the light-receiving element. The judgment unit judges whether disturbance light received by the light-receiving element has an influence. The scan control unit sets the number of scans with the light beam to scan the coordinate input unit when the judgment unit judges that the disturbance light has an influence to be greater than the number of scans when the judgment unit judges that the disturbance light has no influence. The recognition unit recognizes the coordinates input by the coordinate input unit in accordance with a change of the sensor signal output from the light-receiving element. | 05-03-2012 |
20120136624 | COORDINATE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a coordinate recognition apparatus includes a detection device, a first calculation section, a second calculation section, and a setting section. The detection device detects an operation for an operation area. The first calculation section calculates coordinates of an operation position by a user on the basis of the detection result of the detection device. The second calculation section calculates the smoothed coordinates by smoothing a particular number m (m>0) of samples among the coordinates calculated by the first calculation section counted from the new one in a calculation order. The setting section sets a value of the number m of samples to be smaller as the speed of movement of the operation position is higher. | 05-31-2012 |